1999 DODGE INTREPID Complaints

1999 INTREPID STARTED MAKING LOUD KNOCKING NOISE IN ENGINE. TOOK TO DEALER AND NOW DEALER SAYS THAT I AM LUCKY I DID NOT DENOTATE THE ENGINE. NEEDS WHOLE NEW ENGINE TO THE TUNE OF $8000.00. HAVE ALWAYS MAINTAINED ENGINE OIL CHANGE. NOT DUE TO THAT, DUE TO THE FACT THAT CHRYSLER PUT ALUMINUM RODS IN ENGINE.

CAR BLEW THE ENGINE ON DECEMBER 13TH. WAS TOLD BACK IN JUNE I HAD MAJOR ENGINE PROBLEM DUE TO OIL SLUDGE IN THE ENGINE. WHEN I PRODUCED ALL MY OIL CHANGES I WAS TOLD I SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT THE EXTENDED WARRANTY. CHRYSLER OFFERED 50/50 WHICH STILL HAS COST ME $3600+ TO REPLACE MY ENGINE. I HAD TAKEN MY CAR IN WHEN IT WAS UNDER WARRANTY FOR "TICKING NOISES UNDER THE HOODS". THEY RECENTERED THE TRANSMISSION AND MOTOR MOUNTS, REPLACED THE IDLER PULLEY, BUT IT STILL EXISTED. THEY CLAIM I COULD NOT HAVE DRIVEN MY CAR FOR 3 YEARS WITH THIS PROBLEM. THE #6 BERING FINALLY BLEW OUT. VERY UPSETTING. I WAS DRIVING THE CAR WHEN IT HAPPENED.

ON DEC 20 2002, THE VEHICLE ENGINE STARTED RAPPING WHILE TRAVELING APX 60 MPH ON INTERSTATE. IT THEN STOPPED WITHIN 30 SECONDS WITH NO RESTART. DEALER HAS REPLACED ENGINE 20,000 MILES PRIOR FOR SAME THING. DEALER HAS HAD THE VEHICLE FOR 5 BUSINESS DAYS AND HAS NOT FIXED IT. ALSO, HISTORY OF MULTIPLE WINDOW FAILURES, MULTIPLE FUEL GAUGE FAILURES, MULTIPLE A/C FAILURES. TS

AT JUST 53,000 MILES IT IS DISCOVERED THAT THE RACK AND PINION STEERING ASSEMBLY ON MY THREE-YEAR OLD VEHICLE NEEDS TO BE COMPLETELY OVERHAULED. THIS IS GOING TO COST NEARLY $1,000.00 AND IS ABSOLUTELY NOT A ROUTINE ISSUE IN A VEHICLE THIS NEW AND LIGHTLY DRIVEN. AFTER RESEARCHING THE MATTER FURTHER ON THE WWW IT IS OBVIOUSLY THAT STEERING ISSUES ARE A WIDESPREAD PROBLEM IN DODGE INTREPIDS AND THEY POSE SERIOUS SAFETY RISKS. I IMPLORE YOU TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS! DO NOT WAIT UNTIL SOMEONE GETS KILLED IN AN ACCIDENT BEFORE YOU DO. FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT: HTTP://INTREPID.CLAN-510.ORG/ACCIDENT.HTM

WE BOUGHT OUR CAR NEW FROM GLADSTONE DODGE, AND NOTICED RIGHT OFF THAT THERE WAS AN HESITATION AND LUNGING IN THE TRANSMISSION. THIS PROBLEM WAS RANDOM, YOU NEVER KNEW WHEN IT WOULD HAPPEN.WHEN WE TOOK IT IN ANYWAYS TO BE CHECKED THE WROTE IT UP AS THEY "COULD NOT VERIFY" AND NEXT TIME "COULD NOT DUPLICATE" . WE KEPT CALLING AND INSISITING THERE WAS SOMETHING. WE WERE TOLD TO BRING IT IN WHEN IT WAS DOING IT.THEY REPLACED THE CAM SENSORS AND SAID THAT WAS PROBLEM, NOT THE TRANSMISSION ITSELF. THEN WARRANTY EXPIRED WE PAID FOR THE NEXT SENSOR. THEY SAID STILL NOT THE TRANSMISSION. NOW AT 60,000MILES THE TRANSMISSION IS COMPLETELY GONE. DAIMLERCHRYSLER REFUSES TO PAY SAYING THAT THE TECH COULD NOT VERIFY OR DUPLICATE THE PROBLEM. EVEN THOUGH WE TRIED TO TELL THEM ON SEVERAL TIMES, THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG FROM THE BEGINNING. 2 MONTHS AGO WE WERE SHOWN THICK SLUDGE IN THE OIL ON A ROUTINE OIL CHANGE, NOW AFTER RESEARCH I SEE IN A COMPLAINT SITE FOR DODGE INTREPIDS THAT THERE ARE 1,000 THAT HAVE HAD THE SAME PROBLEM WITH TECHS "UNABLE TO VERIFY OR DUPLICATE" AND CUSTOMER KEEP INSISTING THERE IS A PROBLEM, SENSORS REPLACED AND ONLY TO FOLLOW WITH TRANSMISSION TOTALLY GOING OUT. AND WITH THE SLUDGE THE ENGINE ENDS UP BLOWN. SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE!!!

CONSUMER STATES WHILE DRIVING THE VEHICLE AT 55MPH THE ENGINE STALL. PULLING OUT OF THE ROAD, VEHICLE WAS TOOK TO THE DEALER THEY TOLL THE CONSUMER ENGINE BLEW OUT. PLEASE PROVIDE FURTHER INFORMATION. TS

I AM IN SALES AND DRIVE EXTENSIVELY. BECAUSE OF THIS I AM VERY CAREFULL TO CHANGE MY OIL EVERY 3000 MILES. I CURRENTLY HAVE 91000 MILES ON MY CAR, IT IS DUE FOR AN OIL CHANGE IN ROUGHLY 700 MILES. WHILE DRIVING I NOTICED A FAINT TICKING SOUND AND ABOUT TWO MINUTES LATER T GOT VERY LOUD. I PULLED THE CAR OVER AND IT SHUT OFF. THE CAR DID NOT OVERHEAT, THE OIL LIGHT NEVER CAME ON. I HAD A RECOMENDATION TO A GOOD MECHANIC WHO TOWED IT AND FOUND THAT THE ENGINE HAD LESS THAN A QUART OF OIL IN IT. THERE WERE NO LEAKS, AND IT HAS NEVER SMOKED. IT HAS ALSO NEVER HEATED UP. MY ENGINE IS OUT OF WARRANTY, BUT I HAVE BEEN TOLD BY MY OIL CHANGE GUY, WHO HAS ALSO INSPECTED THE VEHICLE, THAT DODGE IS HAVING A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH THE 2.7L MOTOR. A LOCAL DEALER TOLD HIM THIS. AT ANY RATE, I HAVE A BLOWN MOTOR ON A CAR THAT IS 3 YEARS OLD, AND APPARENTLY NO RECOURSE. PLEASE HELP ME IF YOU CAN. DT

CONSUMER STATED THAT WHEN APPLYING THE BRAKES THEY WOULD HEAR A LOUD POPPING NOISE CAUSING A DISTRACTION TO THE CONSUMER. DEALER NOTIFIED. MR

WHILE DRIVING AT 70 MPH THE VEHICLES OIL INDICATOR LIGHT FLASHED ON AND OFF THEN THE VEHICLES ENGINE WOULD CUT OFF. THE CONSUMER HAD THE VEHICLE TOWED TO THE DEALER WHO INDICATED THAT THEY HAD REPLACED ALOT OF 2.7 ENGINES. *TS *NLM

CONSUMER STATES THAT WHILE DRIVING BEARINGS SEIZED UP RESULTING IN BROKEN RODS AND BENT VALVES IN ENGINE. MR